Is it possible for me to grab (download) a full list of transcripts from a youtube channel’s videos. I am working on a small project, of which I need a list of the videos, like all of them to control+f and find specific words.
I was wondering if anyone knew of such program I could use.
However, I wrote this AppScript in Google Drive, of which I’m not sure if this will work. It uses high level Google Account Access.
function getYouTubeTranscripts() {
const CHANNEL_ID = "UCtMVHI3AJD4Qk4hcbZnI9ZQ";
// This below is what, before Oath (ing), is what Google is saying its unsafe, and does not let me continue...
const youtube = YouTubeApp.getOAuth2Service().getService();
const videoIds = youtube.search().list("id", { channelId: CHANNEL_ID, maxResults: 50 }).items.map(item => item.id.videoId);
videoIds.forEach(videoId => {
const captions = youtube.captions().list("snippet", { videoId }).items;
if (captions.length > 0) {
const captionId = captions[0].id;
const transcript = youtube.captions().download(captionId, { tfmt: "srt" }).getContentText();
DriveApp.createFile(`${videoId}.txt`, transcript, "text/plain");
Logger.log(`Transcript for video ${videoId} saved.`);
} else {
Logger.log(`No transcript found for video ${videoId}.`);
}
});
}
Just wondering of anything else I could use…
Hmm, I’d have a look at the yt-dlp source code. I think it can download subtitles/transcripts (and list them). The process does take a few seconds though.
I was just going to chime in with this. I don’t know the details of their implementation, but I get transcripts with every video I download using yt-dlp (if it exists which it does 99.9% of the time).
am I able to download all the transcripts of each video from one channel? I was planning on doing this with a few channels. If this is even possible with YT-DL.
Hmm, youd need to first get a list of channel videos and then iterate thrpugh them, probablu with a script. Yt-dlp might support getting the videos in a channel, idk. I do know that it can download while playlists… Perhaps try passing it the channel url and seeing if it treats that as a playlost.
YouTube sometimes made it hard to find, but all channels do have an all videos Playlist. I think he button is on a profiles video page now. I don’t know if yt-dlp can do only transcripts but I’m sure it can download all videos with transcripts included.
